As cold and sterile as a piece of machinery.
The 13th Floor (1999)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:17
Rotten:42
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Bad script and confusing plot undermine the movie's impressive visuals.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Computer scientist Hammnod Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves... Computer scientist Hammnod Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated paralell world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions. Fuller is murdered in our "real" world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine. [More]
Starring: Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Starring: Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Dennis Haysbert, Steven Schub, Jeremy Roberts, Rif Hutton, Leon Rippy, Janet MacLachlan
Director: Josef Rusnak
Director: Josef Rusnak
Screenwriter: Josef Rusnak, Ravel Centeno-Rodriguez
Producer: Roland Emmerich, Ute Emmerich, Marco Weber
Composer: Harald Kloser
Reviews for The 13th Floor
based on the Daniel Galouye book "Simulacron 3," first published in the 1960s. ...High-tech and hippie-dippy philosophies go together about as well as chocolate ice cream and brown mustard.
Rehashes every Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where the holodeck goes haywire.
The film starts strong presenting a captivating scenario, then somewhere in the second half dips into a sappy romance.
This movie is one of those good, thought-provoking, adult-oriented science fiction sleepers like "The Arrival," "Gattaca" or 'Dark City.'
Most of the surprises in this intriguing premise are already being used by eXistenZ and The Matrix.
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